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yeah that's a stomper knackers. Always a triumph when you land a first of a species! to do it by yourself - even better ! congratulations and happy eating

I use the jewel 1-4 kg matched with an exage or ecooda 2500 for onk mullys my pb went 88cm 12plus kg was a great fight on 10 pound main line and 20 pound leader. for the mullys in the coorong what you have is fine you may just come up against an unstoppable one though which you might be able to stop if you had a 2-4kg or a 3-6 kg . I rate my jewel highly unfortunately I have snapped it 3 times not through fishing

In saying that! if you are using tommies where there are tommies around you will catch something as you are really trying to mimic/ provide the fish with what they are eating at the time

Have to say my Pb Onk mulloway a big fat 12kg engulfed my live Tommie and many of the other mullies I have caught have been on live and dead tommies albeit these ranged from 56 to 88cm

Ill chip in with three bad weather success stories my 2 most recent and 1 most memorableThe most Memorable one was about 2 years ago at snakes. Some of the guys I fish with off here and myself were heading down for some hopefull salmon, throwing slugs of the rocks. It was wet, it was windy and the swell was pumping, when I got there a bit later than my mates there was about 10-15 people lined up not quite shoulder to shoulder throwing lures and just about hooking up every cast, dropping fish landing fish getting snagged. id say the largest in the school was probably 2-2.5 kg most were 1-2kg. I would have to say this was one of the most frantic fishing sessions in my Life. I was in boardies and a tshirt nearly everone else had waders and wet weather gear, they were worse off because you had to dodge the breakers hitting the rocks everyone was getting saturated and waders were filling up. I ended up with around ten all up and kept two for tea, and gave the rest to my mate for his bait freezer. I lost about 4 lures that day. ( the next weekend I went down with my wetsuit goggles and bodyboard and picked up around 250 dollars worth of lures and reclaimed 3 of my 4 that I lost) :evil: The two most recent happened on the same weekend the 21st of july was originally going to be a weekend in the Barossa doing a hot air balloon flight with the missus and no kids! with 40-60km winds I think it was, there was no chance of that happening. so Friday the 20th we decided about 5pm to head to wallaroo and stay at the missus's dads holiday house.this house is right behind the loading/ storage silos of the jetty so we get a bit of a windbreak at the house. Me and a friend decided to brave the elements and go fish. We thought we would have a chance at snapper with the water being dirty and being blowy a couple of days beforehand. Unfortunately there was a ship in and we could only go to the gates we had two sessions one from about 12:30 pm to 5pm this was mayhem , with hail , rain wind, and no cover we toughed it out with some reward 4 blue crabs and 4 salmon trout about 40cm I picked up a flathead no bigger than my thumb. the next session was just as bad (weather wise) from 8pm to 12 am but we picked up a monster port Jackson and after the first two hours 40 to 60 tommies of good bait size and we left them biting, also picked up another 4 blue crabs to make a decent feast. I was stoked to brave the weather and come back with a reward.On the Monday of that weekend I decided to Hit Waitpinga it was windy and rainy and there was 3 other people there. I ended up with 8 salmon around 1.5kg with a seal taking 8- 10 off my hooks and gashing up a lot that I caught as well. All in all it was a very satisfying weekend.In my experience I have had a lot more luck while surf fishing, jetty fishing, and freshwater fishing in horrible weather. With all the circumstances working together I think it brings fish on the chew.

definitely are a good rod in the 7ft I was casting a 50gm slug miles when down at waitpinga with a headwind! like cal said though that doesn't matter when the fish are less than 50m away! I was just chucking the slug around as a bit of fun while baitwasting! all my fish were caught casting less than 20m from the wash! As someone else said it comes down to personal choice and are you casting lures or soaking baits! totally different styles of rods and sinker weight is important as well. If you are casting big baits this adds weight too

Love my Wilson 8144 I think that's what it is! can throw medium baits a good distance matched with my penn 950 ssm 30 pound mono! Also have the supergraph and I love it I didn't think I would relegate my 8144 to second place but the supergraph is light and can throw big baits a decent distance! In my eyes though generally gutters aren't that far away and it is more accuracy you want than distance! I know id prefer to throw 30m and be in a gutter than 50 metres and be sitting on a sandbar. If your looking at throwing slugs go a 9ft, I have a catana that throws up to 60gm nicely for larger slugs I use my tcurve 9ft

I disagree with tony on this one, I have had my best salmon sessions along christies to southport in this type of water, snapper also get caught in these conditions. Might be a bit early for the big salmon though? Only way to find out is get down there and give it a crack! you will be surprised

lots of flounder to be found wading the flats of the coorong with spotlights and hand spears!

smith camion (various colours) i seem to do well on ones with yellow, gold,black and orange combossx 40 lc kangoku bassday vibe in same colours as camionsthat is mostly onk i would add squidgy bug in wasabi if fishing the glenelg in place of the sx 40

I Agree with live fibre, the mt8144 is a great stick and i have had one for at least 6-7 years now and it has taken alot of abuse even from monster rays that wouldnt budge! I love it and if it ever breaks I wont hesitate to get a new one the same day I also have a wilson super graph 12 ft and i love this rod as well i have found i can get big baits out where i want them with some sort of control! As live fibre said my 8144 is matched to a penn 950 spinfisher ssm and personally i think being matched with "old school" heavier surf reels is the go with this one! whereas the super graph being lighter i have it matched at the moment to my thunnus 6000 until I Have enough cash to buy a lighter surf style reel, The point being the 8144 is heavier so having a heavyish reel on it doesnt matter whereas tha graph style rods if you put a heavy reel on it you are cancelling out one of the best attributes of that style rod which is its lightweight. Thats just my opinion and preference, many others will like using diffe3rent style combos and its just up to you to find over time your best/ most favoured surf combo.

i generally put a hone on my edge with a diamond honing knife but for the sharpen i get the pros to do it! as an ex chef my knives got a lot of use and would be sharpened 4 times a year now they are quite smaller than when i got them but with the professionals you know you are getting a good edge every time and it is relatively cheap , definitely cheaper than using cheap sharpeners and buggering the blades or getting a crappy edge

good work yet again chuck!

this topic made me sad i just snapped my 3-6kg jewell which caught me many mullies up to 88 cm! wicked rod i used it for everything from lures sp's to live baiting! you will have a ball with that rod

Exactly the same red bull! this is also a utility style setup! can be used for multiple rigs and different fish without changing reels or mainline

Bait and soft plastics work well for flatties in the onk! my favourite spots are anywhere from the footbridge over the onk near southport slsc back to behind port noarlunga footy oval, reason being the bottom is still sandy here with plenty of weed and ledges/drop offs for the flathead to sit and wait then ambush their prey, best time is on incoming and outgoing tides when the baitfish will be moving with the flow and the flatties will be sitting with their heads facing toward the flow! remember this if using lures or sp's. best baits i found are worms sand or blood, or unweighted pillies/ prawns or whitebait! if your using worms or prawns dont be surprised to pick up some decent yellowfin whiting from this area as well! The best soft plastics are paddletail fish or gulp worms!good luck! ps Mulloway are in the onk all year round

Im Pretty Sure there is no fishing allowed on the port adelaide side of the barker inlet wetlands it is all stormwater runoff from the massive drainage channels that run through kilburn, regency, dry creek etc etc, Pretty skanky when your up to your neck in it and the silt is about 3 foot deep. Plenty of carp in there but there is in any bit of water around that way! if you want to fish that area why not go to the drainage channel that runs along south road ive kicked up to 60cm carp in there and the water is waist to ankle deep. Big carp everywhere you dont have to fish illegal spots to get them! Even though i love fishing the barker wetlands was and still does get trashed by carp fishos not disposing of rubbish or carcasses

Ive got 300 odd carp in bags in the back of my Ute if Chuck wants em

Spot On Chuck @ AFF i Thought at first glimpse it looked like a cross between a flathead and a weedy or yellowfin whiting.

Hi Guys and Gals I came across this fish while netting glenelg golf course wetlands for carp we caught all up around 10 -15 of them most being in the 15 to 20cm category with 2 or 3 20-25 cm specimens!I already know or think i Know what it is But i want to see who comes up with the correct answer first ! On The Carp Front we pulled out over 300 with 200 coming from one pool alone and probably 15 to 20 45-65 cm fish! Gee I love work fishing on a golf course legally! :whistle: awesome Ill Have more pics to come thursday

good work millsy! stonker fish. Krusty next time you wont just be catching mud crabs youll get onto one

Nice i have the same combo! I run 30lb line on my 950ssm as well. i just upgraded to a wilson 'supergraph' composite rod 12ft which can flick the 6oz sinker out plus big bait with ease! i found the wilson 8144 a little harder to cast the big sinkers and get any distance on it i went max 4oz with my 8144. You should enjoy fishing with your combo though! there is nothing like having your surf rod loaded up and the buzz of a screaming drag while getting sprayed by surf and sand in 40knt winds

Very Interesting topic! Firstly though PETA a good example of good intentions at the start skewed right out of animal welfare into over the top activism gone wrong!Obviously im not a scientist but i believe fish feel something, whether it can be interpreted into pain as humans feel it or something different is well beyond me, but i dont believe they experience trauma associated with pain as humans do.thats my opinion its not an educated opinion but based on observation of fish and also some of the listed reading material that Ranger supplied. It would be interesting to hear others opinions on this

i caught a finger fish with 1